Asia-Pacific navies sign communication agreement

QINGDAO, China (AP) — Naval officials from the U.S. and nearly two dozen Asia-Pacific nations have adopted an agreement aimed at heading off accidents and miscommunication at sea.

The Code For Unplanned Encounters at Sea was approved unanimously Tuesday at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium held in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao.

The agreement outlines how warships should communicate and maneuver when they come into contact in heavily trafficked sea lanes surrounding China, Japan and Southeast Asia. Tensions have been rising in the region over competing territorial claims, especially over a group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that are controlled by Japan but claimed by China.

U.S. Navy officials say that although Tuesday’s agreement is not legally binding, it indicates China’s willingness to engage with its neighbors.

This most-welcome ‘non-political’ agreement, albeit by naval military officers, hopes to reduce chances of military confrontation in the Asia Pacific region.

However, being non-binding and with no direct enforcement power against pro-war leaders, their respective national political leaders could still initiate armed conflicts from the many territorial disputes in the region.
This lack of enforcement constitutes the main weakness of all previous war prevention attempts.

Historical and current evidence confirm that politicians and their influences ALWAYS hamper all and any attempts at war prevention. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Old Yugoslavia’s disintegration, Israel/Hezbollah/Palestine, …

All political influences ought therefore to be eliminated from any meaningful war prevention effort – if the world would ever derive permanent war prevention.

And, this can now be very easily achieved by instituting a brand new independent body (with no political attachments) for resolving all pro-war political disputes. This one simple move would spontaneously prevent all war because no one would then be opportune to initiate one from such political crises as Ukraine or Syria.

Moreover, nowadays, with widespread digital technologies usage, appropriate initial members for the proposed new body can be easily assembled from the far-flung populations of the globe; and their resolutions readily ENFORCED without need for regular armed forces.
(Details in the book titled: ‘Unchecked, They’ll Kill Us All: All Wars Can Be Prevented!’

Furthermore, please note that the United Nations since 1945 has consistently failed in its main objective of global war prevention. It cannot, only because of its intrinsic political attachments.)